Ian Piper

Where the pines reach down to the shore with hollows sheltering nesting plovers there lies a world remote from the clamour of humanity. So tread gently, listen to the rustle of the marram grass and the sigh of the shingle for you are part of a day that you share with others that you cannot […]

While the Hunters in the Snow has decorated innumerable cards and calendars the painter Pieter Bruegel remains a mysterious figure. With the people in his paintings dressed in the smocks and bonnets of the 16th century it is easy to assume that Bruegel was one of their number for how else could he have achieved